On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 19:47, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas why rpm may be hanging on RH 8.0?  I've tried rpm
> --rebuilddb. *Any* rpm commands I give hanges and never complets I've
> tried adding the -v switch to get more info however it hangs as well.
> I've made sure that I've killed all previous rpm commands. Now I just
> don't have a clue. 
> 
> 
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there's a known problem with rpm that shipped with RH 8 and it hasn't
been replaced - I'm sure it's in bugzilla but it's easy enough to fix.

killall rpm
killall up2date (if it's running)

rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__*

rpm --rebuilddb

Craig